By tracing the steps of liver regrowth, MIT engineers hope to harness the liver’s regenerative abilities to help treat chronic disease. The human liver has amazing regeneration capabilities: Even if up to 70 percent of it is removed, the remaining tissue can regrow a full-sized liver within months. Caption:By tracing the steps of liver regrowth, MIT...
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is one of the most important methods to study biological function in cells, but it is limited by potential inaccuracies in the data it generates. Now, a research team from Japan has developed a new method called terminator-assisted solid-phase complementary DNA amplification and sequencing (TAS-Seq), which overcomes these limitations and provides higher-precision...
The analysis of the human brain is a central goal of neuroscience. However, for methodological reasons, research has largely focused on model organisms, in particular the mouse. Now, neuroscientists gained novel insights on human neural circuitry using tissue obtained from neurosurgical interventions. Three-dimensional electron microscope data revealed a novel expanded network of interneurons in humans compared to...
JUNE 29TH, 2022 CONN HASTINGS MEDICINE, ONCOLOGY, PATHOLOGY A team of researchers at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology in Korea created a centrifugal system to separate circulating tumor cells from blood samples. Resembling a DVD, the device separates the cells using the centrifugal force created when it is spun. A layer of white blood...
WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE IMAGE: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR KATE SUTHERLAND (L) AND DR SARAH BEST (R) CREDIT: WEHI Mapping the ‘energy fingerprints’ of lung cancer leads to fundamental treatment rethink Melbourne researchers have discovered cancer and immune cells rely on the same energy sources from our body to thrive, which could trigger a fundamental rethink...
